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This gallery has on exhibit works from a variety of media, inspired by the beauty of the natural world. Marie L. Matthews Gallery is located inside a circa 1900s restored barn that is also home to D&R Greenway Land Trust.

Gallery hours are weekdays from 10 am to 5 pm, except for holidays. Please call 609.924.4646 ahead of time to ensure that art exhibitions are viewable in all rooms.

“There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the
way
in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.”
-Robert Wilson Lynd, Irish writer

Grab the Fish and Run by Susan Liddle

Watchful Kingfisher by Kathie Jankauskas

Birds are more than beautiful: they are bellwethers of environmental health.
This exhibit celebrates birds, as well as highlighting conservation’s significant role
in supporting crucial travel patterns for the 4,000 species that migrate. Because of New Jersey’s location along the Atlantic flyway, our natural resources are critical
to avian survival.

Artists include:

Jim Amon

TingTing Hsu

Kathleen Amon

Kathie Jankauskas

Sherri Andrews

Allen Jones

Hana Aviv

Joan Lasota

Ed Baumlin

Mary Leck

Laura Beard

Mary Liddle

Gillian Beck

Susan Liddle

Maggie Bee

Lyric Lucas-Weinbaum

Anita Benarde

Byron Lum

Clara Beym

Tasha O'Neill

Kristen Birdsey

Sandy O'Connor

India Blake

Regina Ottman

Beatrice Bork

Santford Overton

Silvere Boureau

Margaret Miccio

Gail Bracegirdle

Lynn Padwee

Laurie Braman

Don Patrylow

Deb Brockway

Paula Pearl

Jean Bryer

Elizabeth Peck

Darcy Chang

Dallas Piotrowski

Richard Chenoweth

Bill Plank

NJ DeVico

Pat Proniewski

Connie Dierks

Janet Purcell

William Dix

Jack Quinn

Wayne Domkowski

Richard Rappleyea

Joanne Donnelly

Margaret Simpson

Terry Donofrio

Aurelle Sprout

Jennifer Driscoll

Lucia Stout

Susan Eckstein

Cindy Sussman

Sean Edwards

Walter Varan

Renee Egan

Annelies van Dommelen

Marissa Farra

Lynn Varga

Catherine Gowen

Emily Vickers

Judy Greger

Andrea Wallace

Gordon Gund

Elaine Young

Susan Hoenig

Ewa Zeller

Joelle Hofbauer

Anne Zeman

Ann Hoffenberg

Marie L. Matthews

The Marie L. Matthews Gallery was named in honor of Marie L. Matthews, a noted Princeton artist. Marie Matthews lived a full life as an accomplished nature photographer, very active in philanthropic affairs. She raised a family and traveled widely. She graduated from the University of California-Berkeley and received a Masters Degree in Education from Goucher College. She served as a trustee of the Lymphoma Research Foundation, Corner House Foundation, and Mothers 2 Mothers Program. The generous spirit of Marie lives on in the Marie L. Matthews Gallery.

Olivia Rainbow Gallery

Named by Leslie and Chris Kuenne of Princeton in memory of their daughter Olivia, a burgeoning artist who loved the outdoors, the gallery exhibits works of children and students from pre-school through high school ages. Throughout the year, changing exhibits mirror the theme of the art displayed in the Marie L. Matthews Gallery.

Family Nature Program
*Please note the January 20th Family Art Program
is cancelled.

The Jay Vawter Decoy Collection

Close to eighty artistic carved decoys were gifted by collector Jay Vawter of Princeton to D&R Greenway Land Trust in February 2012. This gift seeks to inspire a conservation ethic by creating appreciation for the waterfowl and bird species on display.

Jay Vawter

D&R Greenway’s work to preserve critical natural habitats – including marshes and wetlands, rivers and streams – was the impetus behind the gift.

An astute collector of high quality decoys, when Jay Vawter learned his children were not interested in inheriting his collection, he decided they would make a perfect charitable gift. He selected D&R Greenway as the recipient because: “D&R Greenway preserves lands full of these birds.”

Many of the decoys in the Vawter Collection have won awards, such as a Merganser drake that won best in show at the Ward World Championships. Lem and Steve Ward, hunters and fisherman, weren’t trained artists but developed their ability to create lifelike birds by observing birds in the marshes and waterways. In 1975, the Ward Museum opened in Salisbury, Maryland. Every decoy in the Vawter Collection was carved by an artist represented in the state-of-the-art Ward Museum.

This exhibit includes a selection of working decoys more than 100 years old. Jay Vawter made a generous gift of his prize-winning decoys to D&R Greenway in 2012. “With this exhibition we want to give a sense of how decoys went from being a hunter’s tool and craft to a fine art,” says Vawter, a retired investment counselor and avid photographer who has traveled the world, amassing his decoy collection. “The first three in the case, on loan from Ron Kobli of Frenchtown’s Decoy & Wildlife Gallery, were actually used by hunters to lure birds.”

Special thanks to Decoy Gallery Curator Jay Vawter, and to Ron Kobli of Frenchtown’s Decoy & Wildlife Gallery, for loans of early carvings from their personal collections. The gallery is open during business hours of business days, through October, 2017.

Click here for directions to the Johnson Education Center
One Preservation Place
Princeton, NJ 08540
609.924.4646